Mental Health (Secure Facilities) Act 2016

The director-general must keep a register of mail searched under section 25 (Monitoring mail).

The register must include the following information in relation to each item of mail searched:

the name of the patient whose mail was searched;

the date the mail was searched;

whether the mail contained a prohibited thing;

whether the search revealed information about the commission of a serious offence and, if so, whether the information was given to the chief police officer;

the date the mail was given to the addressee;

anything else prescribed by regulation.

The register may be kept in any form, including electronically, that the director-general decides.

The director-general may correct a mistake, error or omission in the register.

The register must be available for inspection, on request, by a commissioner exercising functions under the Human Rights Commission Act 2005.

Note The following commissioners exercise functions under the Human Rights Commission Act 2005:

 the children and young people commissioner

 the disability and community services commissioner

 the discrimination commissioner

 the health services commissioner

 the public advocate

 the victims of crime commissioner

 the human rights commissioner.

In this section:

serious offence—see section 26 (4).

Division 3.4 Contact—visitors